What we are up to in 2nd grade library: Oliver Jeffers and Stuck.

This past week in library classes the 2nd grade students had a chance to "meet" the author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers.  Okay, okay, he did not actually come to Sprague to visit, but we watched this excellent, and quite humorous, video about him and read one of his books.

Mr. Jeffers is the illustrator for both of the Crayon books - that is The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home so most 2nd graders are familiar with his work and style and also are big fans. We read a book that he wrote and illustrated titled Stuck.

The hilarious thing about this book is that Floyd throws item after item up into the tree to try to knock his kite down and everything he throws up gets stuck.  This is an incredibly silly (and therefore) fun book to read aloud.  We took some time after reading the book to come up with our own items to get stuck in the tree.  Take a look at the crazy Stuck trees the 2nd graders made:

2KC - In addition to the fast blue car and the ice cream cone, Elephant and Piggie made it into this tree.

2KF - lots of donuts stuck in this tree along with Darth Vader and some balloons.

2MH - notice the 3D items like the paper airplanes, the volcanoes, the sun and the Empire State building.

I hope you are enjoying your book as much as we are enjoying ours.
Read On!
Ms. J.